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London: Stockdale, 1807. Paperback. Good. Disbound. The three dialogues by "Polypus" are a 12th edition, the fourth dialogue appears to be a first edition. Lacks any preliminary pages and Dialogue the Fourth lacks frontispiece. A previous owner has filled in the names that are left blank or that have only initials in the Three Dialogues but not the Fourth, which we find helpful and not at all a detraction. Barrett was an Irish author who composed mainly satirical verse.

Printed for John Joseph Stockdal, 1807-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 1807 18th Printing written anonymously by E S Barrett; this copy in an attractive modern hardback binding; this is the extended edition with 24 pages of prelims and 128 pages; very attractive frontispiece illustration

London: John Joseph Stockdale, 1807. Leather. Very Good. 8.5" by 5". Rowlandson. A popular satirical poem by Eaton Stannard Barrett, focusing on the Whig governments of 1800 to 1807, illustrated with a Rowlandson frontispiece. The seventeenth edition, published in the same year as the first.Illustrated with a Rowlandson frontispiece.Half-title is present.Collated, lacking the front endpaper, otherwise, the work is complete.A satire by the Irish poet Eaton Stannard Barrett, written under the pen-name Polypus.In this political satire, Barrett pokes fun of the 1800 to 1807 Whig administration, at the time unofficially led by Charles James Fox and Viscount Howick.Barrett is best known today for 'The Heroine', a gothic comic novel admired by Jane Austen.Bookplate of Egerton Parker to the front pastedown. Parker was a teacher and house master at Hereford Cathedral School for over twenty years. Generally known as Ege Parker, he was passionate about the study of history. In a full marbled calf binding.… Read More